Priest John Downie
Rating: 8,9|Votes: 16
I believe in a continuous conversion. It lasts a lifetime. It is the very process of transition from death to life. I feel I could follow this path forever and ever.
Fr. Photios Parks
Rating: 9,3|Votes: 167
Some years back, there was a point in my life when I didn’t give a second thought to the Saints. Fortunately, I had a life-changing experience that dispelled my incorrect notions about Saints and changed my whole paradigm in the way I view these holy servants.
Anna Tkacheva
Rating: 9,2|Votes: 52
Looking at him, I didn’t feel that we were different, that we were of different nationalities. On the contrary, it seemed as if that perfect stranger were one of my relatives or friends. In truth, we are all one in Christ…
Paula Anastasia Tudor
Rating: 9,6|Votes: 49
Archimandrite Hilarion (Dan) is one of the most revered Romanian spiritual fathers of our days. In the world he was a man of high standing and had huge opportunities, but he renounced his earthly wealth for the sake of a life in Christ.
Geraldio Lau Gefaldo
Rating: 9,7|Votes: 46
Our hero is a remarkable young man. He was born and grew up in Indonesia. This story is about his spiritual quest, a difficult Orthodox mission in a faraway tropical country, the miraculous meetings and adventures in Russia of an eighteen-year-old Indonesian, whose sincere faith amazes even experienced Orthodox.
Olga Rozhneva, Priest Dimitry Torshin
Rating: 9,8|Votes: 70
Fr. Dimitry Torshin, the rector of the Church of the Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos, tells amazing stories about the spiritual laws that operate unseen but authoritatively in our lives.
Metropolitan Pavel of Vyshgorod and Chernobyl
Rating: 9,6|Votes: 51
I leaned over him and asked: “What happened?” He looked at me with eyes full of inexpressible fear. “I was in hell! If only you’d have seen what it’s like there!"
Amir Azarvan
Rating: 7,1|Votes: 23
I know, therefore, what the answer to the question “Daddy, do you love me more than God?”—a question with which many Christian parents are likely familiar—ought to be; though whether I, in my weakness, live accordingly is an entirely separate matter.
Elena Esaulova
Rating: 9,7|Votes: 63
We stood by the exit of a movie theater, preparing to hand out our paperback Bibles...
Theo Panayides
Rating: 8|Votes: 9
Is it quite unusual, for a Kenyan to become Greek Orthodox? “It is very usual,” he replies, surprised by my question.
Sergei Mudrov
Rating: 9,3|Votes: 56
“Over the past three years I have baptized 500 people, and about seventy-five percent were Muslims. They sincerely love Christianity despite the attempts by nationalists to create a negative image of the Church.“
Denis Akhalashvili
Rating: 9,7|Votes: 40
Now he was looking at the dome with a cross, glittering in the sun, and waiting for death to come. But it was slow in coming, though a tenfold heroin overdose should have caused a quick death. Meanwhile, death was still not going to take him, and he was gazing down at the golden cross on the church dome and couldn’t tear himself away from the view.
Elena Esaulova, Elena Zyryanova
Rating: 9,3|Votes: 39
In Protestantism I felt far less comfortable than here. I was alone there, but in Orthodoxy the Lord, the Virgin Mary and saints help me bear my cross.
Priest Valery Dukhanin
Rating: 9,7|Votes: 69
Natalia had no idea what the Jewish woman’s reaction would be, nor did she know what else she could offer to relieve Tabitha’s sufferings. With her simple heart and sincere faith, Natalia wanted to share the thing she held dearest with Tabitha and used the Gospel as the source of her personal spiritual consolation.
It is crystal clear that our society is infected with a shortage of love. I think that our contemporaries, choked up in the general atmosphere of enmity (because of the lack of love), above all expect love from the Church. That is why above all we should tell those on the outside that God is love.
Fr. James Guirguis
Rating: 10|Votes: 21
This is only the beginning. Let this not be another day in your life, but the day that you recommit yourselves to live only for Jesus Christ and what is profitable for your salvation.
Artem Budenny, Dmitry Nechitaylo
Rating: 9,6|Votes: 19
An artist shows both perfection and imperfection of life in his art. He first needs to experience, feel keenly and comprehend the idea and then convey it, using the arsenal of knowledge and skills.
Maria Perova, Pavel Popov
Rating: 9,9|Votes: 17
My path towards art was not a very traditional one. I took up painting rather late in life. I was trying to find myself.
Archpriest Andrei Tkachev
Rating: 9,2|Votes: 37
But now you’ve heard of two whole Germans who came to Rus’ for the Holy Spirit, although it certainly bloweth were it listeth. And both of them took on the very difficult form of Christian asceticism—foolishness for Christ—and achieve sainthood in it. Yes, two! But wait, there is a third.
Priest George Maximov
Rating: 9,7|Votes: 33
In the video below Orthodox Filipinos speak about their conversion to Orthodoxy and how the holy faith has renewed their lives.
